Softball Splits Saturday Twinbill with Lehigh

Saturday, April 28

West Point, NY

12 PM

Army West Point

21-24, 0

Lehigh

17-22, 0

Lehigh

Army

Softball Splits Saturday Twinbill with Lehigh

April 28, 2018 | Softball

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WEST POINT, N.Y. – After dropping the opening game against Lehigh, 2-0, the Army West Point softball team bounced back in a big way, capturing a 9-3 victory to even the Patriot League series on Saturday.

The Black Knights (22-24, 7-7 Patriot League) posted a pair of solid pitching performances in the doubleheader versus the Mountain Hawks (17-23, 8-6 Patriot League).

Despite getting the loss in the opening tilt, Macey Newbary went the distance allowing just two runs. She induced 13 fly outs and struck out three in the outing.

Courtney Springman started the second game and also turned in a complete game performance. The freshman struck out six while only giving up three runs on five hits.

At the plate, the Army bats came alive in the second game and Carrie Reilly led the charge with a 3-for-4 outing. She hit a two-run home run and drove in four in the win. Kristen McPeek also performed well, picking up three hits in four at-bats while crossing home three times.

GAME 1: LEHIGH 2, ARMY 0
ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Newbary tossed her second complete game of the season.
Katie Ontiveros picked up Army's lone hit of the game and her fifth of the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Lehigh got on the board in the opening frame after an RBI single plated a run with the bases loaded. That was all that the Mountain Hawks would be able to muster as Newbary worked out of trouble to limit any further damage.
With Parker Boyd shutting down the Black Knight offense, Lehigh maintained its one-run advantage. It remained 1-0 game until the seventh, when the Mountain Hawks added an insurance run.
In the seventh, Army came up to hit one final time and the three Black Knight batters were set down in order, securing the 2-0 victory for Lehigh.

GAME 2: ARMY 9, LEHIGH 3
ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAMES NOTES

Four Cadets tallied multi-hit outings.
The 13 hits was the second most this season in a game by an Army squad.
The Black Knights recorded five extra-base hits in the game, including four two-baggers.
McPeek tallied her second three-hit game of the season.
The senior scored a season-best three times.
Reilly recorded her fourth three-hit performance.
Her four RBIs tied a career high.
The home run she hit in the sixth was the fourth of her career.
Lacey Swafford recorded her 30th hit of the season.
Her double was the fifth two-bagger in her sophomore campaign.
Springman tossed her 18th career complete game.
Her six strikeouts in the outing, put her at 140 for her career.
Ashley Yoo appeared in a game for the first time this season.
Julia Wyatt stole her seventh career base.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Following two scoreless frames, Lehigh jumped ahead 3-0 with a trio of runs in the top of the third.
The lead did not hold for long as Army came up to bat in the home half of the inning and evened the score up. Taylor Livingston led off the inning with an infield single and scored once Swafford shot a double into left. After a McPeek base knock, two Cadets were on for Reilly, who ripped a two-RBI single up the middle to tie the game.
Reilly came through once again later in the game once she hit an RBI double into the gap in right center with no outs in the fifth, scoring McPeek all the way from first.
Leading 4-3 entering the bottom of the sixth, the Army bats erupted. Ally Snelling was called on to pinch hit and she led off the frame with a double to left center. Wyatt came in to pinch run for Snelling and after the first out was recorded, she stole third. Livingston then shot a chopper to short and the throw was sent home, but it was low and Wyatt scored.
The second out was recorded in the inning, but the Cadets still were not finished. Livingston was on second, setting up McPeek for an RBI single. Reilly then took the first pitch she saw and sent it over the fence in right to extend Army's lead to five, 8-3.
With the bases cleared, Ballesteros singled up the middle before scoring on a Drayton RBI double to left center to cap a five-run sixth inning.
Lehigh attempted to climb back into the game in the seventh and loaded the bases with no outs. However, Springman fanned back-to-back batters before getting the final Mountain Hawk hitter to ground out to third.